Nijmegen: PRO would still come first on today's polls
Nijmegen (Gelderland) has 146,484 voters. Below: how it voted at the general election of October 2025, and the same figures moved to today's national polls. The next council elections are in March 2030.
- 146,484voters
- 34.3%PRO on today's polls (Netherlands: 18.8%)
- 27.0%PRO, first at the general election of October 2025
Today's polls here, against the general election of October 2025
- PRO 27.0% → 34.3%
- D66 25.9% → 15.5%
- JA21 3.5% → 7.7%
- PVV 10.5% → 7.3%
- PvdD 4.4% → 6.4%
- VVD 8.6% → 5.2%
- FvD 2.3% → 4.6%
- CDA 6.9% → 4.5%
- SP 2.9% → 4.4%
- Volt 2.3% → 4.2%
- 50PLUS 0.8% → 2.3%
- CU 0.7% → 1.3%
- DENK 1.9% → 1.1%
- BBB 0.7% → 0.3%
- Others 1.5% → 0.8%
Pale bar: the general election of October 2025; solid: today's national polls carried down to Nijmegen (each party moves by its national change, half by the same number of points and half in proportion, scaled so that every gemeente adds up to the national average). Our national polls: Netherlands forecast →
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About Nijmegen
Nijmegen has 146,484 voters, the largest of 51 in Gelderland and 9th of 342 across the Netherlands.
At the general election of October 2025 it voted PRO 27%, D66 25.9%, PVV 10.5%. PRO did 14 points better here than across the Netherlands.
The council election, March 2026: GROENLINKS came first with 11 of 39 seats, ahead of D66 (7).
Moved to today's national polls, our projection here has PRO on 34.3% and D66 on 15.5%.
The council election, March 2026
39 seats on the council.
- GROENLINKS 25.1% · 22,641 · 11 seats
- D66 16.9% · 15,222 · 7 seats
- Stadspartij Nijmegen 13.5% · 12,154 · 6 seats
- Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) 10.0% · 9,020 · 4 seats
- VVD 8.8% · 7,914 · 3 seats
- CDA 5.4% · 4,864 · 2 seats
- Partij voor de Dieren 4.8% · 4,314 · 2 seats
- Forum voor Democratie 3.8% · 3,407 · 1 seat
- SP (Socialistische Partij) 3.8% · 3,388 · 1 seat
- Volt 3.2% · 2,886 · 1 seat
- 1Nijmegen 3.2% · 2,876 · 1 seat
- Revolutionair Socialistische Partij 0.9% · 837
- Piratenpartij 0.6% · 521
Gemeenten of a similar size in Gelderland
- Apeldoorn131,161 voters · PRO first
- Arnhem125,265 voters · PRO first
- Ede93,808 voters · PRO first
- Doetinchem47,982 voters · PRO first
- Barneveld45,847 voters · SGP first
- West Betuwe40,974 voters · PVV first
- Zutphen39,221 voters · PRO first
- Overbetuwe38,300 voters · PRO first
Every gemeente in Gelderland → · All of the Netherlands →
Kiesraad, via data.overheid.nl (CC0): Tweede Kamer election of 29 October 2025 and gemeenteraad elections of 18 March 2026, by gemeente.